Hurrican Sandy

JordanC · Nov 9, 2012

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So now you want to bring our military into this to try to make a 'job creations' point?? I swear you just love to add shit to your witch's brew until it's all smoke and vapors.

Yah, ok, 'lesse'...

Formulating a jobs Bill is the easy part, k?

Then attaching a few adums to it, even eaiser (oh those sneaky politicians.)

Then asking for ONE BILLION DOLLARS to create UP TO 20,000 jobs...
that's ONE BILLION DOLLARS...for 20,000 jobs...
ONE BILLION the president doesn't have...

That's where the skids come in.

Never mind there are ALREADY SIX Jobs training programs for Vets available. Oh crap look, they are wrought with Govt abuse/wa$te. Say it ain't so Ali...:???: No worries tho, let's just create a new Bill, way easier than fixing what you ALREADY have, right?
Oh, more shenanigans...Harry Reid vetoed an amendment request to the Bill asking the SIX programs be consolidated and investigated FIRST..lol...gee wonder why? :butthead:
Oh look, more Reid rejecting another amendment request to INCLUDE ALL Vets and not 'just Vets post 9/11' which the Bill only covered. What an asshole, huh? (guess he is the smilie)

So yeah, let's make the Opposition look mean for basically saying "we don't have the money Prez" so you can rant at your Chris Mathews TV and somehow blame Romney.

It's what fiscal responsibility is about, Ali. Don't fucking buy a new corset car you can't afford when you have 6 in need of repair in your yard!

....MEANWHILE, our Govt has allowed a backlog of more than 860,000 disability claims from vets WHO NEED MONEY to LIVE my dear...oh btw, 228,000 of these vets have been waiting for OVER a year and more.

Where's that 'repair' Bill? Who's caring about all of those vets INCOME to survive, Ali?

Funny how this Admin cut the jobs of military officers (who defend your 1st Amendment Right to spout nonsense) but added more NON-uniformed bureaucratic personnel.

Obviously you just love to look at the pretty ink on the Bill, but not ask QUESTIONS like what's in the Bill and can we pay for it and does it similarly exist. Much like Nancy "we have to pass the ObamaCare Bill so you can find out what's in it" Pelosi.

LOONacy.
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By about next week people will be about politicked out and go on to other stuff. Hopeful.

Bliss · Nov 9, 2012

Another fanatical lefter

"I'm so glad we had that storm last week because I think the storm was one of those things. No, politically I should say. Not in terms of hurting people. The storm brought in possibilities for good politics."

Chris Matthews apologizes for ‘stupid’ Sandy comments

Chris Mathews opened Hardball" on Wednesday with a lengthy apology to viewers, pertaining to offensive comments he made on election night while talking about Hurricane Sandy's effect on President Barack Obama's re-election.

"I said something terrible," Matthews said at the top of his MSNBC show. "I said something not just stupid but wrong.."

On Tuesday while assessing Obama's victory, Matthews said he was "glad" Sandy happened because it showed undecided voters the president could come together with Republican leaders, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, to help the superstorm's victims.

"I'm so glad we had that storm last week," Matthews said before attempting to clarify himself. "No, politically I should say. Not in terms of hurting people. The storm brought in possibilities for good politics."

"Obviously I wasn't talking about the horror of the storm," Matthews tweeted on Wednesday.

On "Hardball," Matthews pointed out that he had been on the air for 10 straight hours on Tuesday, but did not blame fatigue:

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Bliss · Nov 9, 2012

JordanC said: ↑

By about next week people will be about politicked out and go on to other stuff. Hopeful.
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Well I attempted that last night. But of course what is now a genuine hell for the victims just HAD to be used as pawn political fodder so she could spew more of her vitriol. I mean, he had NOTHING to do with Sandy, for goodness sake. The election is OVER, the man is no longer in contention, he's gone.
But since that's what she wants, that's what she'll get.

JordanC · Nov 9, 2012

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Well I attempted that last night. But of course what is now a genuine hell for the victims just HAD to be used as pawn political fodder so she could spew more of her vitriol. I mean, he had NOTHING to do with Sandy, for goodness sake. The election is OVER, the man is no longer in contention, he's gone.
But since that's what she wants, that's what she'll get.
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:smt102 Let it go. It won't help the victims to continue.

Nikkers · Nov 9, 2012

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And to be completely honest, I actually think it's quite ableist to say things like 'LOONacy' to someone who admittedly suffers from mental health issues. If someone said that to me I'd firstly be offended then I'm slap the shit outta them. Check ya privilege.
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Cosign

Bliss · Nov 9, 2012

JordanC said: ↑

:smt102 Let it go. It won't help the victims to continue.
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Yeah, I did that. Balls in her court.

pettyofficerj · Nov 9, 2012

Bliss said: ↑

Yeah, I did that. Balls in her court.
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always gotta get in that last word dontcha

Bliss · Nov 9, 2012

pettyofficerj said: ↑

always gotta get in that last word dontcha
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Awww, you love to follow me around. Go watch some porn, cause it's not gonna happen. :smt056

Bliss · Nov 9, 2012

Sandy inspires first ever Doctors Without Borders U.S. relief effort

By Edith Honan, 10 hrs ago

Reuters) - Manhattan doctor Lucy Doyle has done stints with the global medical relief organization Doctors Without Borders in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya. But her latest assignment is a real eye-opener: New York City.

In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, Doctors Without Borders has set up its first-ever medical clinic in the United States, and Doyle finds herself on the front line of disaster just miles from her day job.

"A lot of us have said it feels a lot like being in the field in a foreign country," said Doyle, who specializes in internal medicine at New York's Bellevue Hospital, now closed by Sandy's damage.

A week after Sandy swept through New York City, knocking out power and public transportation for days, Doctors Without Borders established temporary emergency clinics in the Rockaways - a remote part of Queens that faces the Atlantic Ocean - to tend to residents of high-rises that still lacked power and heat and had been left isolated by the storm.

"I don't think any of us expected to see this level of lacking access to healthcare," said Doyle.

DIRE SITUATION, 15 FLOORS UP

The situation in the Rockaways is dire: high-rises don't have working elevators, street lights are dark and until a day or two ago, pharmacies had either been destroyed or were shuttered. The almost complete absence of police, coupled with the constant darkness, has left residents fearful of leaving their apartments.

"Their pharmacies are closed. Their doctors' offices are closed. They need a way to get refills of the medicines they take all the time," said Danya Reich, a physician at Beth Israel Medical Group in Manhattan, as she waited to see patients in a first-floor laundry room that was serving as a medical clinic.

In one squalid building on the ocean's edge that has been without power and heat for 11 days, the stairwell reeked of vomit and urine. And yet a steady stream or residents made the trek, some joking that at least they were getting exercise.

One case was especially concerning to the doctors was a couple living on the 15th floor. Victor Ocasio, 46, has chronic bronchitis, asthma and has been throwing up blood. His wife Lorraine Bryant, 42, is diabetic and obese and uses a walker. Both have been complaining of chest pains and wooziness.

"I'm scared to walk down those steps. I fell before and I'm scared I'll fall again," said Bryant. But she was resisting the idea of going to a shelter, where the doctors said she and her husband could get regular medical treatment.

"I'm scared to go into a shelter. Bad things happen there," she said.

John Josey, 72, who has been bed bound since having a stroke some years ago, suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure and arthritis.

A home health aide who tends to him said the pharmacy where she normally fills his prescriptions washed away in the storm, and a family member had asked that a Doctors Without Borders volunteer visit to fill out new prescriptions.

A CVS pharmacy opened a few days ago in the Rockaways, but patients who have never been there have no records on file.

As David Horne, a dermatologist volunteering with Doctors Without Borders, tended to his patient, Josey's family recounted what it had been like the night of the storm. The water had nearly come up to second-floor windows and at one point had reached 11 feet high.

Horne said that with so many prescription requests, the doctors were trying to stay vigilant. One patient had asked to have a prescription for a very potent narcotic that had not been filled in months and for which there was no obvious need. He declined to fill it.

In many ways, this side of New York City is much like the war zones or disaster areas where Doctors Without Borders normally works.

"Every night we spend in the dark, somebody's life is at risk," said Rejelio Arnold, 25, who has spent the last week delivering water and other essentials to his sick and elderly neighbors on higher floors. "Mostly it's just food and water and candles that people are trying to get."

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NYC is 75 mins from here and it feels like a world away. Just surreal.

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